I like your jokes. Lolllll. Good one!!!!

If Hiroshi Yamauchi calls wii a 6th Gen console, it means that Nintendo doesn't have a 7th Gen console and beat out both the 360 and PS3 with a 6th Gen console. Oh I see what he did there O.O mind boggling. 360 and PS3 were fighting something that was weaker than them by a whole generation, and lost. Truly mind boggling.

It's even more mind boggling how Nintendo used 6th gen technology that was most likely cheap as f*** to produce, and beats 7th gen technology that was expensive as f*** to produce, all the while making a profit. O.O

So nintendo skipped a whole gen and now Wii U is truely 8th Gen. Interesting. nintendo, I give you mad props.

360 leading the generation since launch confirmed.

The generation of a console has nothing to do with how powerful it is (although that might be a motivation for releasing a new console), it is dependent on what number in the line it is released during:

NES was one generation
SNES is another generation
N64 another
GameCube another
Wii another
Wii U is the upcoming generation.

It's pretty basic math, it's a matter of adding 1s.

Well, maybe their initial intention was for it to be an add-on to the Gamecube, and not a next-gen console (which sounds possible, as it wasn't released until 3 years later), but eventually evolved into a next-gen console.

People seems to think 'next-gen' means 'better graphics'. This is not the case. Next-gen means doing something that couldn't be done on the previous generation of consoles, and thus a new one is needed. In this sense, the Wii with its motion controls, online capability, improved graphics and bigger disc-sizes is just as next-gen as any other console, and the same will be the case for the WiiU, regardless of what analysts or anonymous sources may say...

Iwata is cooler.

^hehe

New game controls (motion control, peripherals) don't define a generation. Technology does (videogame history 101), and graphics fall into that category, peripherals don't. The reason why new consoles came out in the roots of VG history was due to technological advancements.

Also, the NES had a ton of peripherals ranging from attempted Motion Controls to 3D, to light-sensing guns. None of those made the NES jump from one gen to the next:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nintendo_Entertainment_System_accessories

Technically due to timing it would compete with gen 7 machines, but in essense it's a gen 6 console.

@theARTIST. I'm glad you also had the epiphany. You are now more enlightened.

Yamauchi is the man!! The greatest business man in the game industry, by far!!! Too bad he is too old now.

21.74 million standalone Gamecubes + 191.4 million Gamecubes sold as Wiis = PS2 was beaten a long time ago.